From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 19:53:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01812 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01795 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:53:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 0.56 #1) id E0vRs5A-0005mV-00; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:51:44 -0700 To: Michael Smith Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail (Re: non-root users binding to ports < 1024 (was: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2 Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), peter@taronga.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:25:44 +1030." <199611250155.MAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199611250155.MAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:51:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199611250155.MAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: : Sounds like a winner to me too. Peter, as you know a bit about Qmail, : could you come up with a paragraph or two about it for the handbook? : If it is indeed a secure sendmail replacement, then we should point : people at it in all the "right" places. I've been happy with exim. And would be willing to help any efforts to make alternative MTAs more easily intergrated into FreeBSD. qmail isn't the only alternative. I don't want to get into a name calling contest about which one is better at this instance. Make it easy to switch between them, and it doesn't matter what the picture is today or if that changes in the next 6 months :-). Warner